[ASTELL, Mary (1668-1731)]. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady, for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R Claval at the Peacock, 1696, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece (browning and occasional dampstains, G2-7 detached, small burn hole in H4 affecting a letter), modern calf-backed cloth [Wing A4058] -- [WALSH, William.] A Dialogue Concerning Women, being a defence of the sex, written to Eugenia, London, for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1691, 8°, FIRST EDITION (title re-marginned with repairs, lacking final blank, occasional browning), modern boards. [Wing W645; Macdonald 136] (2)